Daily NK is an online newspaper focusing on issues relating to North Korea. The site, which is run by citizens of both Koreas alongside a small handful of staff and volunteers from third countries, is based in South Korea where it reports stories allegedly obtained from inside North Korea via a network of informants.[1]

Daily NK reports are frequently cited by international media,[9][10] and former North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's eldest son Kim Jong-nam describes it as the most accurate source of inside information on North Korea, particularly the country's markets.[11][12] Sometimes even South Korea's National Intelligence Service contacts Daily NK asking for information.[9]

On the other hand, North Korea's National Reconciliation Council, in an official statement carried by KCNA, once criticized Daily NK for what it called "anti-DPRK smear campaigns," and Lee Chan-ho of the South Korean Ministry of Unification warned in 2010 that the “flood of raw, unconfirmed reports” from organizations including Daily NK "complicates efforts to understand the North."[13]

Hwang Jang-yop, a leading political figure in North Korea prior to his 1997 defection, contributed a regular column to the site prior to his death in Seoul in 2010.[14]